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Can you really write like this?

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by I'll never tell, Sep 26, 2013.

  1. I'll never tell

    I'll never tell Active Member

    Man accused of threatening neighbor while genital-hoisting

    When your're wheeling out you garbage in the morning, the last thing you probably want to see is more junk.

    A man told deputies that John Solomayar, his 60-year-old neighbor, had threatened his life before walking into the middle of a Port St. Lucie boulevard where he allegedly wagged his weiner at him while shouting, "suck it," according to an arrest affidavit, reports Will Greenlee in his Off the Beat blog for TCPalm.com in Stuart.

    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/strange/floriduh-blog/sfl-flduh-threatening-neighbor-waving-penis-20130924,0,4753407.story

    I'll admit I laughed at the first sentence. However, how do you allow somebody to write "weiner." I know it's a blog, but for Christ sake, we're still journalists.
     
  2. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    SO CLOSE.
     
  3. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Made it four words without a mistake.

    Then crapped the bed with "you garbage."

    BLOGS!
     
  4. JPsT

    JPsT Member

    You're giving partial credit for "your're"?
     
  5. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Wow, even worse.
    And I missed it.

    BLOGS!
     
  6. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    The idea was great, but the execution was terrible. Two mistakes in the first five words? Wow. And that paper won a Pulitzer this year.
     
  7. Here me roar

    Here me roar Guest

    Um, you called out Will, but it was the woman copying his blog that used weiner AND had the mistake on you.

    If you click on the link to the original blog, he used penis.
     
  8. I'll never tell

    I'll never tell Active Member

    Um, we copied and pasted the same thing except for ...

    By Barbara Hijek FloriDUH

    7:29 a.m. EDT, September 25, 2013

    No, I didn't even know Will existed. How did you get me calling out Will? My point was how are you a journalist and use the word wiener?
     
  9. Bradley Guire

    Bradley Guire Well-Known Member

    There's always tallywhacker.
     
  10. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    EDITORS!
     
  11. Here me roar

    Here me roar Guest

    Because they way that you did it makes it looked the original blog used the word weiner. Since the criticism was of the woman, her name should have been included. That's all.
     
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